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Comment by HaklePrime

Dropped from The Black Stalker, in Heroic Underbog

Comment by Ishtar

Best for Tanks, but I think this would be a nice trinket for any class in pvp. Also nice for mages who need stamina for Gruul's lair. Not to mention that the trinket will help absorb fire damage as well.

Comment by frmorrison

Someone guessed that the click ability would act like PW: Shield and allow a caster to not get knock back on casting. That would be cool if that was true.

Anyway, the last 2 trash mobs in Heroic Underbog are worse than the bosses.

Comment by 10076

The trinket would prevent cast interruptions, but only if it absorbs all the damage (ie the hit is less than 68).

The proc 'shield' will absorb ticks of DoTs as well, which makes it great against any class that stacks DoTs on you.

Amazing pvp trinket.

Comment by 37463

http://www.wowhead.com/?item=27529
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=27169
http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=27179
o.O

Comment by 36389

I read a post on the forums that the mechanic of this trinket makes it such that, while the use is activated, you're immune to crushing blows. The only way I would think this would be the case is that, the coding on the trinket treats incomming attacks as being blocked, and thus, reduced by a set ammount, for the duration. If so, this would be a 20 second uncrushability shield.

Can this be confirmed?

Comment by 29261

The real beauty of this trinket is that it acts like a "shield block" to every hit, therefore meaning that they cant be crits or crushing blows.

I got this on my warrior, and the cooldown does not trigger that of Dabiri's Enigma (+125 block rating) nor Charm of Alcrity (+192 dodge), meaning that you can fire one then the other.

This a real joy, and makes life much more manageable, scaleable and controllable for raiding.

While it's good for me as a warrior, it's simply a MUST HAVE item for a druid tank, who have no other way of mitigating crushing blows.

Comment by Anvil

The use on this trinket is just of disappointing. I use it as a tank purely for the +36 stamina due to lack of other good tanking trinkets.

If you can hit the 490 defense measure without a second trinket, this is a very good choice.

Comment by 5715

All this talk about 16-17 attacks over a 20 second duration is stupid. Has anyone ever heard of multimob tanking?

Comment by 10128

36 stamina
+45 stamina from the netherwing revered trinket
= 81 stamina

x1.25 bear form
x1.20 heart of the wild
x1.10 blessing of kings
x1.03 survival of the fittest

= 138 stam
>>> 1380hp

x1.05 tauren racial
>>> 1445hp

From two trinkets.

You can easily beat 22k HP with these one and more stamina/tank gear.

A crushing blow on a warrior, thought it happens rarely, can be very damaging. A crushing blow on a druid is far less of a problem: more stamina and more armor.

Comment by 80967

If a boss has a 2.0 attack speed, wouldnt it only absorb 680 damage?

Apparently, the enemy would have to have a ~1.176 attack speed to fully use up the shield in the 20 seconds.

So I guess its better to use it against multiples enemies.

Comment by Shada

Agreed. 36 Stamina, that's 3 Solid Star of Elune's worth right there. The on use effect comes into its own tanking trash, never mind bosses. With only a 2 minute cooldown, you can basically use it every pull.

This is a fantastic tanking trinket, whether you're paladin, bear, or warrior.

Comment by 62481

kind of pisses me off when i found out you werent immune to crushing blows when using the absorb feature on it. I once thought this was the best druid tank trinket on the market just for that reason =/

does anyone know of a trinket that DOES make you immune to crushing blows when used?

Comment by Veilside9999

I took this on my hunter alt who i use for pvp/arena, i got plenty of /w calling me a ninja till i mentioned its pvp applications then i they got very upset that they didn think of that too :)

Very nice for flag carriers in WSG.

Comment by 57561

I'm using this as a priest in PvP. An interesting thing to note is that when the shield is active, melee attacks on you do not use up Inner Fire charges, even if they deal damage to you. Very useful trinket when you get focussed.

Comment by 117977

note that it should also be useful for the mage or lock that occasionally needs to AOE a large number of small hitting mobs, this would absorb the minor damage coming from many mobs, which may actually consume the absorbtion limit completely.

question to rogues, if a bleed or dot effect is completely absorbed, would it still break stealth.
this could be tested with a rogue and a priest friend with rank 1 shadow word pain.

Comment by 140778

I am a little disappointed in Blizzard for not coming up with some neat buff you get when you use this. For example when you use the Gnomregan Auto-Blocker you get "Gnome Ingenuity" and when you use the Adamantite Figurine you get "Adamantite Shell". I was hoping for something fun to claim you received while going nuts and falling asleep tanking Halaa guards.

Comment by 201964

Quite an effective Pally tank trinket as well if slowly building your gear up and not being able to get the likes of the Darkmoon decks etc.

In most cases the Pally tanks job will be to AOE tank in raids, taking multiple hits from multiple targets, this trinket will help take the edge off the dps.

Comment by 88175

Now with a bigger cousin!
http://www.wowhead.com/?item=37220

Comment by 606253

Lore note: Argus is the original homeworld of the Eredar. When Sargeras came to corrupt them, some escaped under the leadership of Velen. These became the Draenei. It is unknown what happened to the world after the corruption, but it most likely serves as an important Legion stronghold.

Comment by Anarchy

The use effect is pretty useless in it's current iteration.
Tested as a level 46 paladin with 10887 HP, absorbs 5-6 physical damage per attack up to 110 damage total.

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Item Level 32
Binds when picked up
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+4 Stamina

Use: Reduces damage from each attack by 46, up to a total of [341 * (1 + Versatility)] damage absorbed. Lasts 20 sec. (2 Min Cooldown)
Requires Level 27

Sell Price: 2 54

Dropped by: The Black Stalker

Drop Chance: 3.83%

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